Sujet

Lamp on the Thames Embankment, 1870. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Lamp on the Thames Embankment, 1870. Illustration of an '...ornamental lamp standard,...[recently] erected on the Thames Embankment Terrace [in London], showing the artistic design, which has an elegant effect, and is an interesting work of sculpture. The boys climbing the shaft, one handing up the torch to the other, with which to kindle the light in the glass globe above, form a pretty composition. The cornucopias, pouring out their gifts of plenty, may be typical of the reward of British commercial industry, as displayed on the banks of the Thames; while another device on one of the panels below, composed of the caduceus and trident, symbolises the mercantile spirit and maritime enterprise of this nation. The other panel presents a bold oak-wreath, within which is the date of the opening of the Embankment. The whole design is intended to harmonise with the lions' heads, by the same artist, which appear on the river front of the pedestals, both on the north and south sides. The artist who modelled the designs is Mr. Butler. The Coalbrookdale Company has executed these standards in metal'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM24A49_126

Model release

NA

Property release

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

40,0Mo (1,8Mo) / 23,9cm x 42,0cm / 2819 x 4959 (300dpi)

Mots clés

road London England architecture arts industry metal sculpture art British decoration decorative lighting industrial craftsmanship lamp location century Britain newspapers press print metalwork company concept mythology street lamp street light decorated United Kingdom B&W engraved engraving Horn of Plenty Thoroughfare street Lighting cornucopia 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News streetlighting TGN Thames Embankment wood engraving ILN newspaper Unknown Joseph William Bazalgette Bazalgette Joseph Bazalgette Sir Joseph Bazalgette Butler Sir Joseph William 19th-century Timothy metal work Coalbrookdale Company The Illustrated London News Timothy Butler